Lady @Lady@cat.family

y’all i don’t think i’m gonna finish this boomer romance book

what if i… broke some URLs 😱

@monorail but anyway i am also annoyed by ash getting badges handed to him, i just think that the central theme of his arc is “passion + hard work > innate skill” and a core part of his character is that he isn’t smart but he never gives up

if he could just do things right the first time you’d have a very different anime

@monorail i think they are doing a lot better about that in pokémon journeys; Goh is the one who doesn’t know anything about training and Ash is legitimately pretty on top of things and cool

but i still wouldn’t call him *smart*, just, experienced

i don’t want to tear into some rando’s whole fanfiction concept but why would anybody decide that what pokémon really needs is “smarter Ash”

the pertinent RFCs are quite unambiguous that both extensions are valid

KIBI “support .markdown anywhere you support .md you fools” Gô

feeling like an imposter, mostly on account of not being qualified or experienced in any way ♪

@Satsuma oh they are i just don’t want to insinuate that i think their professional aspirations are trash

glad you figured that one out

when people are like “my relationship to Mastodon is unhealthy” and you’re just like “yep”

@Satsuma i help edit a speculative fiction magazine

almost was like “i thought it was pretty widely acknowledged that while it is decent for profic, it’s pretty mediocre compared to most fanfiction” before i remembered i was in a room full of published authors

teach romance authors how to fucking pace a story and establish a mood

TWISTS AND SUSPENSE DO NOT PAIR WELL WITH SEXY SCENES

i can't even explain it without a lot of words and some heavy content warnings but SUFFICE TO SAY it had the mood set perfectly and then for some reason decided to drag it through the mud and THEN, for SOME REASON, the protagonist is just emotionally IGNORING that which what even was the point then???? you already HAD a perfectly good setup?????

this profic just pulled the absolutely fucking weirdest lead-in to its spicy bits i'm so confused

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